There are QR codes everywhere these days, from cafes to billboards. With your smartphone, you can quickly open a website, download an app, send a text message, and do many other things by scanning ...

“Starting with version 16.1.0, you can enable auto-zoom to allow the Google code scanner to automatically scan barcodes that are far away from the camera,” Google added. When users point their devices ...

A popular barcode-scanning app for Android carried a severe vulnerability that allowed anyone easy access to a database full of sensitive data, as long as they knew where to look. This is according to ...

Scanners of various flavors still exist, of course, but there's a lot less need for the average person to own one. Your recent-ish photographs are all going to be digital, and it's rare that most ...

The Google Play Store might not be perfect for stopping Android malware, but its collection of scanning, app reviews, and developer requirements makes it a lot safer than the wider, unfiltered ...